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Expand Up @@ -7,10 +7,18 @@ makes requests to the Drive V3 API.

## Prerequisites
- Python
- Create a project
- Activate the Drive API in the Google API Console([the detail page](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-project))
- Create a OAuth client ID credential and download the json file ([the detail page](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-credentials))
- Rename the json file
- Visual Studio Code or another text editor
- An active Google account with access to Google Devlopers

## Getting Started
1. Clone the Github repo either using the git command or by downloading and extracting the folder.
```shell
gh repo clone googleworkspace/python-samples
```
2. Open the extrancted or cloned folder in Visual Studio Code or your text editor.
3. Activate the Drive API in the Google API Console ([Instructions here.](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-project))
4. Create a OAuth client ID credential and download the OAuth client ID json file ([Instructions here.](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-credentials))
5. Move the json file into the quickstart folder (*/python-samples/drive/quickstart) and rename it credentials.json

## Install

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```shell
python quickstart.py
```

## Expanding
The Google Drive devloper api can be found [here](https://developers.google.com/drive/api).